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For big enterprises it is either included in existing licenses (i.e. Microsoft Word has ChatGPT embedded) or pilots. No one is cutting massive checks to Microso
by monero-xmr 3y ago
For big enterprises it is either included in existing licenses (i.e. Microsoft Word has ChatGPT embedded) or pilots. No one is cutting massive checks to Microsoft specifically for OpenAI services.
This is obvious, but if you need some journalist to validate what is already logically clear:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ais-costly-buildup-could-make-early-products-a-hard-sell-bdd29b9f https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ais-costly-buildup-could-make-ea...
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-deals-microsoft-google-amazon-7f624054 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-deals-microsoft-google-amazon...
- infecto 3y agoI can see how its easy to get confused in this area but there are indeed large checks gettign written for using services like OpenAI or Anthropic. You are really conflating too many things at once. 1) Yes, big tech is having a hard time monetizing their bespoke AI tooling within their own ecosystem. 2) Yes, big tech has made investments in the AI space where they are providing a portion of that funding as credits to use in their cloud offerings. 3) Here is where you are incorrect though. Companies are writing large checks for the raw compute/access to AI models. It is true across the spectrum of Azure OpenAI, OpenAI directly, AWS Bedrock etc, there are a lot of companies both big and small using these services heavily. To think otherwise is naive.
- monero-xmr 3y agoThe investment is massive, but real tangible products that have purchasers for sustainable contracts is miniscule. We are in the experimental phase and hype cycle, and the trough of despair is next. I do think real products will come from this, but the actual productivity enhancements at the scale necessary to justify the investment have not materialized.